America is one of the countries least affected by anti-Semitism, according to Mme. Irenee Harand, Christian fighter against race hatred, who returned recently from a visit to the United Sates in the interest of her World Organization to Combat Racial Hatred.
“In America the point of view is generally accepted that anti-Semitism is the best yardstick with which to measure the health of a country because it represents one of the greatest and oldest aberrations of humanity,” Mme. Harand said in an interview with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Mme. Harand, who publishes the newspaper Gerechtigkeit, said she had conferred in New York and Chicago with clergymen and other persons, including President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University, representatives of the Community Church of New York and several Catholic priests.
She is supervising plans for a World Congress against Anti-Semitism to be held shortly in Vienna to extend the fight against anti-Semitism in all European and overseas countries. Representatives from every country are expected to attend the conference, she declared.
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